Transfer Folders

[fantasticCG]

Hi i have a video file which is 4.36GB in my windows download folder, when i try and move it to my external drive it comes up with file too large to move.
Is there anyway around this???

 

[paradisiac]

is your external drive formatted as FAT32?

 

[Sin_Chase]

is your external drive formatted as FAT32?

^ This.

Max FAT32 file size is 4GB.

If it's just for transfer then split the file. You can either do this with a video tool or create an archive.

Use Store/No Compression level and set archive splitting to FAT32 or a maximum manual of 4GB. (Options will differ depending on app)

7zip example. Store/No Compression archive split into 2000MB(2GB) files.

Copy all archive part 001,002 etc files to HDD, copy off at other end and extract back into full file.

If you want to watch directly from the HDD you have no choice but to format as NTFS or another file system that supports >4GB file sizes. What you chose will depend what you want to connect it to.

If it's just windows devices NTFS is fine.